(MedicalWorldNews,November8,1974,p.106).Thiscould
explainthecorrelationbetweenlongevityandlittleornomeat
consumption.
30.TheSurgeonGeneral’sReportonNutritionandHealth
(Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1988).
- Accordingto a wire-service reportcited in Vegetarian
Times, November 1988.
32.The New York Times, October 25, 1974.
33.N. Pritikinand P.McGrady,The PritikinProgram for
Diet and Exercise (New York: Bantam, 1980); J. J.
McDougall, The McDougall Plan (Piscataway, N.J.: New
Century, 1983).
34.FrancisMooreLappé,DietforaSmallPlanet,pp.28–29;
see also The New YorkTimes,October 25,1974; Medical
World News, November 8, 1974, p. 106.
35.QuotedinF.Wokes,“Proteins,”PlantFoodsforHuman
Nutrition, 1: 38 (1968).
- Inthe first edition of Dietfor aSmall Planet (1971),
FrancesMooreLappéemphasizedproteincomplementarityto
showthatavegetariandietcanprovideenoughprotein.Inthe
revisededition(NewYork:Ballantine, 1982)thisemphasis
hasdisappeared,replacedbyademonstrationthatahealthy
vegetarian
diet is bound to contain enough protein even without
complementarity. For another account of the adequacy of